Adam Vaughan is a writer.
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Electric cars are dead because their battery capacity has grown so much in the past decade. The problem with electric vehicles is anxiety, it says.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders says that access to publicly available charging points for plug-in cars is going backwards in the UK. The chief executive of the trade body said yesterday that the solution is for the UK government to set a mandate for charging infrastructure, similar to the mandate car makers will face from 2024 on what percentage of their car sales must be electric.